The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated Public Health Wales as a collaborating centre for digital health equity.
The partnership will play a key role in shaping WHO’s work on digital health equity and strengthening…
Kathryn Marsden, chief executive at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (Credit: SCIE)
The ‘shift to digital’ poses unique opportunities and challenges for social care, writes Kathryn Marsden OBE, chief executive at the Social Care…
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John Mitchell, chair of the Digital Health Networks ICS Digital Council (Credit: Digital Health)
An NHS ‘online hospital’ can only succeed if it strengthens existing services rather than competes with them, writes John Mitchell,…
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This study harnesses machine learning to dissect the complex socioeconomic determinants of depression risk among older adults across five international cohorts (HRS, ELSA, SHARE, CHARLS, MHAS). Evaluating six predictive algorithms, XGBoost demonstrated superior performance…
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The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has launched an inquiry into digital inclusion in the NHS and wider healthcare sector.
The charity said it wanted to understand how the UK government’s investment in digital transformation is…
Government Launches Ambitious Digital Inclusion Initiative
The UK government has unveiled a comprehensive Digital Inclusion Action Plan designed to address the growing digital divide in society. This strategic initiative targets the 1.6 million UK residents…
Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, England’s patient safety commissioner (Credit: Photographs by Photographer London)
England’s patient safety commissioner and GP, Henrietta Hughes, says the traditional in-person consultation is “gold standard” when it comes to holistic…
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Public Health Wales (PHW) has appointed collaborative service design consultancy Healthia to lead a project to boost the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes.
The ‘Digital diabetes discovery’ project will develop an evidence-based framework…
England’s Patient Safety Commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE is the latest confirmed keynote for Rewired 2025.Before her national role as independent patient champion Dr Hughes was the National Guardian for the NHS and a…
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The King’s Fund has called for patient engagement around digital health technologies to be more than just a “tick box exercise” if the government is to achieve its aspiration to shift from analogue to…
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